Threat Fire

Here's a nice utility that monitors all your programs from your computer. When a program starts acting funny Threat Fire alerts you of the unusual behavior.

Is Free VOIP Possible

Here the scoop on the free VOIP. Don't believe everything you hear that VOIP is free. Read this article and then decide for yourself what is free.

Never Forget your USB key at work again

This great visual basic script does a perfect job to remind you before you logoff from your computer that a USB key is attached. That's your signal to take the USB key home. It's better than post-it notes.

Magic Jack

This little gadget is so amazing. You need a computer with Internet connection and a regular telephone. All you do is plug the black box to the USB port on your Internet connected computer, plug in your telephone and in minutes your connected. Yearly fee is pennies.
The reviews are not that appealing. But if they make a second generation then I would go out and get one. For now you should wait until the work out their software glitches.

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Flash Player Error

If you recently did an update and keep on getting the flash player error. Here is the fix to that error. All you need to do is update your Adobe Flash Player software onto your computer and everything goes back to normal.

Free Music Downloads by MTV

Here's your chance to download music from MTV for free. I just don't understand why they just don't make all music free.

AutoGK software

Looking for a free DVD ripper with audio and video compression. Take a look no longer because this software makes everything so simple.

KeePass Password Safe

Here's an open source password safe to store all your important passwords. It contains AES encryption and can easily be used on USB keys.

Online Movie Downloads

Hollywood has gone into the movie download business to try to lure people to choose a new way of downloading movies and TV shows. User's choose the movies or TV shows they want to watch and instantly the movies are downloaded into a receiver type unit. No one knows who will be the one to take off first. But the idea is good enough to see what happens next.
Amazon
Bittorrent
Cinema Now
iTunes
Movie Link
Vongo
Vudu
Xbox

Hard Drive Health Software

Purchased a hard drive and want to know the health on that hard drive. This software tells you the power on time - life of the hard drive so that you can decide how to use your hard drive effectively. It's a good utility to use with a hefty pricey tag.

Tech Support Switchboard

Tired of buying tech support with hardly any satisfied results. This new site creates a switchboard to other sites and gets you support on any tech issue in less than 30 minutes. It's time to get your moneys worth.

Put Flickr onto your web site

Here is the link to put your Flickr photo's onto your web page. It's user friendly.

Here are the instructions, as per Flickr:

Can I put my Flickr photos on my web site?

Yes! You can create a dynamic badge of public Flickr photos to add to your web site (outside of Flickr).

Use the wizard to set up your badge and show: your photos, group photos, or photos from everyone. You can also filter images by a certain tag.

Simply choose the display options (which photos, how many, what size) and specify if you want to display your screen name and buddy icon. Then choose either a styled version of the badge (photos appear in a column with a colored background) or one that you can design yourself.

Note: If you choose to customize the badge yourself, you need to know we hold all the photos in an enclosing DIV with the class 'flickrimg.' The images within it are also assigned IDs: flickrimg1, flickrimg2, etc.

Reqall

Take voice messages, get daily summaries and reminders via your cell phone anytime.
The easy voice recognition software makes your life complete by remembering your things to remember.

Portable Vault

Have a USB drive and want to secure your files just in case you loose it or if someone steals it. This Portable password protected vault secures your USB drive so that if you loose it. No one can use it.

Ping Test Easy

Want a replacement for Windows ping test command. This software let's you test various ip's and it also helps you to save them for future use.

Donate a PC

Here's another site to donate your computer. At least you know it's going towards a good cause. Your old computer is someone's future into the world wide web.

Programmable Tattoo

Let's just wait until we see the First Ad Campaign Tatoo. Then we can say that we've seen everything.

Vista Password Recovery

Cool tip to restore a new Vista password you just created.
If you've spent nights trying to remember that darn old password here is a great tip to remember in the future.

Instructions

Get your Vista installation DVD and put it in the DVD drive and re-boot your computer. When your computer re-boots choose the language, time and keyboard format. Then when the option Repair your PC pops up choose it and click Next. Now select System Restore option and select the restore point you want to use. This should be the last known date that you have used your old password and created the new one. If you never changed your password, you could be out of luck because this tip will not work. Click Finish and say Yes and let the system Restore to it's previous position. Logon and use your old password.
This does not guarantee all your backup will be saved, but at least it's not that bad and hopefully it's something that your backup recovery software can recover.
Good Luck.

Fix the slow browser in Vista

This is a simple tweak to the Internet Explorer browser in which in Vista you must logon as an Administrator to do. Just click on the Windows icon -> run and type the following in DOS

c:\netsh interface tcp show global

if the line does not say disable then enter this command

netsh interface tcp set global
autotuning=disable

if this doesn't work enter the above command again and end it with this command

netsh interface tcp set global
autotuning=normal

Cell Phone Radio

Why download and sync music when you can just stream it with your cell phone radio. It gives you hundreds of radio stations via the internet without monthly fees.